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How to handle division in systems that compute with logical formulas involving what would otherwise be polynomial constraints over the real numbers is a surprisingly difficult question. This paper argues that existing approaches from both…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Christopher W. Brown

A folk theorem says higher order arithmetic has the proof theoretic strength of set theory with limited power set. This paper makes the theorem precise in terms of several axiom system based on ZF.

Logic · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Colin McLarty

Inspired by Leivant's work on absolute predicativism, Bellantoni and Cook in 1992 introduced a structurally restricted form of recursion called predicative recursion. Using this recursion scheme on the inductive structures of natural…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai , Vitor Greati , Revantha Ramanayake

A Henkin-style proof of completeness of first-order classical logic is given with respect to a very small set (notably missing cut rule) of Genzten deduction rules for intuitionistic sequents. Insisting on sparing on derivation rules,…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Marco B. Caminati

CZF is a system of set theory which, over classical logic, is equivalent to ZF, while over intuitionistic logic, it has a well-known constructive type-theoretic interpretation. This article introduces a simpler, intuitive family of…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-02-23 Daniel Méhkeri

We introduce a non-wellfounded proof system for intuitionistic logic extended with inductive and co-inductive definitions, based on a syntax in which fixpoint formulas are annotated with explicit variables for ordinals. We explore the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sebastian Enqvist

Recursive definitions of predicates are usually interpreted either inductively or coinductively. Recently, a more powerful approach has been proposed, called flexible coinduction, to express a variety of intermediate interpretations,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Francesco Dagnino , Davide Ancona , Elena Zucca

In this paper we establish a general framework in which the verification of support theorems for generalized convex functions acting between an algebraic structure and an ordered algebraic structure is still possible. As for the domain…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Andrzej Olbryś , Zsolt Páles

We develop an approach to choice principles and their contrapositive bar-induction principles as extensionality schemes connecting an ''intensional'' or ''effective'' view of respectively ill-and well-foundedness properties to an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Nuria Brede , Hugo Herbelin

We prove a structure theorem for multiplicative functions which states that an arbitrary bounded multiplicative function can be decomposed into two terms, one that is approximately periodic and another that has small Gowers uniformity norm…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Nikos Frantzikinakis , Bernard Host

This paper presents a theory of systemic undecidability, reframing incomputability as a structural property of systems rather than a localized feature of specific functions or problems. We define a notion of causal embedding and prove a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Seth Bulin

Polynomial reduction is one of the main tools in computational algebra with innumerable applications in many areas, both pure and applied. Since many years both the theory and an efficient design of the related algorithm have been solidly…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Michela Ceria , Teo Mora , Margherita Roggero

In this paper, we give an algebraic completeness theorem for constructive logic with strong negation in terms of finite rough set-based Nelson algebras determined by quasiorders. We show how for a quasiorder $R$, its rough set-based Nelson…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Jouni Järvinen , Piero Pagliani , Sándor Radeleczki

We show that induction over $\Delta(\mathbb R)$-definable well-founded classes is equivalent to the reflection principle which asserts that any true formula of first order set theory with real parameters holds in some transitive set. The…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Anton Freund

We show that arithmetical transfinite recursion is equivalent to a suitable formalization of the following: For every ordinal $\alpha$ there exists an ordinal $\beta$ such that $1+\beta\cdot(\beta+\alpha)$ (ordinal arithmetic) admits an…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Anton Freund

We provide a sound and complete proof system for an extension of Kleene's ternary logic to predicates. The concept of theory is extended with, for each function symbol, a formula that specifies when the function is defined. The notion of…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Antti Valmari , Lauri Hella

To enable the study of open sets in computational approaches to mathematics, lots of extra data and structure on these sets is assumed. For both foundational and mathematical reasons, it is then a natural question, and the subject of this…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Dag Normann , Sam Sanders

We present closed forms for several functions that are fundamental in number theory and we explain the method used to obtain them. Concretely, we find formulas for the p-adic valuation, the number-of-divisors function, the sum-of-divisors…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Mihai Prunescu , Lorenzo Sauras-Altuzarra

Neither the classical nor intuitionistic logic traditions are perfectly-aligned with the purpose of reasoning about computation, in that neither tradition can permit unconstrained recursive definitions without inconsistency: recursive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Elliot Bobrow , Bryan Ford , Stefan Milenkovic

We introduce the notion of a G\"odel fibration, which is a fibration categorically embodying both the logical principle of traditional Skolemization (we can exchange the order of quantifiers paying the price of a functional) and the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Davide Trotta , Matteo Spadetto , Valeria de Paiva